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Notice how Wonder Woman was polite to her male counterpart.


As oppose to... "Stop holding my hand!" - MarREY Sue.

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Yeah, she wasn't written by men trying to virtue signal by showing women how down with the feminazi cause they are.

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She was polite, wasn't she? That and her innocence of the world were very endearing. Gadot did a great job!

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So is that how women are "supposed" to behave? Super-polite all the time, regardless of context?

This kind of topic itself is basically sexism in action.

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Of course! Read the Quran you infidel.

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I would have expected that behavior from both men and women.

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Wonder Woman is polite to everyone (not just to males) because she was raised well in a loving family and close-knitted community. While Rey was an abandoned orphan grew up in dangerous neighborhood along with despicable aliens.

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Wonder Woman is also hundreds of years old, while Rey is maybe 20. Diana has had all that time to polish her social skills at a queen's court, while Rey was scrabbling for something to eat.

I like how she's exquisitely polite to Bruce Wayne, but clearly doesn't accept him as an equal. Thats the sort of good manners you expect to see in a princess!



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One of the good things about this movie was that the women, while being intelligent, physically tough, and completely self-reliant, were not rude and bitchy toward either men or other women. The film's makers avoided that lazy cliche to the benefit of the characters and the story.

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She also referenced sex as "pleasures of the flesh" as opposed to "rape". Nice touch.

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Yes! This film was written with intelligence.

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Sex is sex and rape is rape. Why would the 2 be confused with each other? That is ridiculous.

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Because we live in the era of hashtag metoo where everything rape. Even flirting.

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